The Relationship among the Multiple Intelligences and English Reading Ability of First Year Students in Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon

Abstract

The purposes ofthis research were to study: 1) the multiple intelligences of First Year Students in Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon 2) the ability in English language reading of First Year Students in Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon 3) the relationship among the Multiple Intelligences and English Reading AbUity of First Year Students in Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The samples of this study were 137 first year students from 9 Faculties in Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, in the academic year of 2008. The research instruments were the multiple intelligences survey developed by the researcher from Memletics Learning Styles Inventory and the English language reading test constructed by the researcher. The data were analyzed by means of arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Correlation Coefficient